With its EcoCWave, Dürr Ecoclean has developed an innovative equipment system for aqueous cleaning processes which can handle a wide range of tasks – from coarse to fine cleaning – in an efficient manner. To this end, the new all-round talent comes with a list of features which ensure superior clean…

M+W Group’s management decided to sell its automation business as part of a general move towards focusing on its core competencies — engineering and construction. In 2013, automation contributed approximately 170 million euros to the M+W Group’s total revenues of 2.56 billion euros. A number of indu…

Which companies are true champions when it comes to identifying new technologies? This is a question which the German Fraunhofer Institute for Production Technology IPT has tried to answer. More than 200 leading companies participated in its survey and five were honored.

The institute found the winne…

The requirements for special machine builders are increasing. Because the systems should not only achieve optimal results. Customers also typically demand ever shorter delivery times. Timeframes of twelve to sixteen weeks from order placement to machine delivery are not uncommon. To enable this, mac…

Ecophon Hygiene Clinic is an acoustic ceiling system specifically designed for hospitals. With two different edge finishes, A and E, it provides, for example, patient rooms, corridors, or waiting areas with a suspended standard ceiling that meets special requirements. The system is classified as B5…

Toshiba Corporation announced in May 2014 that it will add a new dimension to its healthcare business by starting production of pesticide-free, long-life vegetables in a closed-type plant factory that operates under almost aseptic conditions.* The company has begun construction of the plant factory…

At the Technical University of Berlin, on July 9, 2014, the Excellence Cluster Unifying Concepts in Catalysis (UniCat) and BASF SE officially opened the joint laboratory BasCat. This adds another scientific building to the Charlottenburg campus. Covering around 1,000 square meters of laboratory and…

GMP risk analyses are a must. Every technically relevant system today is based on risk analyses. They serve primarily as a foundation for the individual qualification phases – whether for newly constructed systems or existing old installations. They help define the scope and depth of qualification…

- Synergies with O&S boost trade visitor count
- Motivated buyers: over 50% of visitors came with definite capital investment projects in mind

It may have been only eight months since parts2clean 2013, but parts2clean 2014 served up all the quality and quantity its exhibitors and visitors were hoping…

In the future more and more cars will fill up with electricity instead of petrol – ideally, electricity from wind, water or solar energy. A prerequisite for the energy turnaround is the availability of efficient storage media. Scientists at the Technische Universität München (TUM) are working on the…